The Special Interest Group in International Information Issues

Even a casual review of the literature on trust reveals a cacophony of issues on the subject. From the list below, which one to three issues would you consider most significant
- to you as an information professional
- to you as a consumer of information
when evaluating a website? Why?

- The privacy policy maintained by a website that asks for personal information
- The presence of a logo from a third party organization certifying a site is trustworthy, such as Verisign
- The interests of an electronic retailer in mining data on the information behavior of visitors to its own website
- The interests of an electronic retailer in monitoring data on the information behavior of Internet users in general
- The influence of the blogosphere on a public’s willingness to trust a piece of information
- The environment rich with personal data created by social networking sites such as MySpace, Xanga, Friendster, or LinkedIn
- How perceptions of trust change from culture to culture